Belling the Cat
Aesop (or Æsop) was a slave of African descent who lived from about 620 to 560 BC in Ancient Greece. He was famous for his fables, now called Aesop's Fables which are usually stories about animals with a moral lesson. The more well known of these are The Boy Who Cried Wolf, and The Tortoise and the Hare. There was one fable about a cat (maybe more). As copyright expired a long long time ago, I can repeat the story here.
Belling the Cat
Long ago, the mice had a general council to consider what measures they could take to outwit their common enemy, the Cat. Some said this, and some said that; but at last a young mouse got up and said he had a proposal to make, which he thought would meet the case.
"You will all agree," said he, "that our chief danger consists in the sly and treacherous manner in which the enemy approaches us. Now, if we could receive some signal of her approach, we could easily escape from her. I venture, therefore, to propose that a small bell be procured, and attached by a ribbon round the neck of the Cat. By this means we should always know when she was about, and could easily retire while she was in the neighbourhood."
This proposal met with general applause, until an old mouse got up and said: "That is all very well, but who is to bell the Cat?" The mice looked at one another and nobody spoke.
Then the old mouse said, "It is easy to propose impossible remedies."
Not quite a nice story about a cat. To me, the moral of the story is that mice are stupid!
More fables by Aesop (eLook.org)
Football - round 16. My team lost, but they had a good run. Here are the stats (the margin was good considering that the Eagles are fairly much undefeated all season).
WEST COAST: 8.3, 10.7, 13.8, 17.9 (111) defeated
BRISBANE LIONS: 1.3, 4.8, 6.10, 13.10 (88)
GOALS – West Coast: Cousins 4, Chick 3, Lynch 3, Gardiner 2, Nicoski, Judd, Matera, Braun, McDougall Brisbane Lions: Bradshaw 4, Notting 3, Merrett 2, Corrie 2, Voss, McGrath
BEST – West Coast: Cousins, Judd, Fletcher, Wirrpunda, Lynch, Braun Brisbane Lions: Black, Power, Adcock, Johnson, Voss, Notting
INJURIES – West Coast: Jones (leg) Brisbane Lions: Charman (quad)
CHANGES – West Coast: Hansen (quad) replaced in selected side by Gardiner
REPORTS - Cox (West Coast) reported for striking by umpire Ryan in the third quarter, Charman (Brisbane Lions) reported for striking by umpire Woodcock in the third quarter
UMPIRES - McBurney, Ryan, Woodcock
CROWD - 41,524 at Subiaco Oval
*Please visit Cooper and Camilla who are part of the Catster CKC Triumvirate. Finding out things and sharing it with us. (My earlier Finding things out was a split infinitive).
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I slept on my other (day) bed for most of the day as the blinds were up and I could catch sun rays. My human disappeared for a few hours (something about his former boss visiting from Melbourne and going out for dim sum - or as it is better known in Australia, yum cha).
Anyway, he got back later and we also had a little nap together in the afternoon (also during a football game). And I better go now and let my human use the computer to finish off his job application. Meow!
keisercat@wildmail.com
Belling the Cat
Long ago, the mice had a general council to consider what measures they could take to outwit their common enemy, the Cat. Some said this, and some said that; but at last a young mouse got up and said he had a proposal to make, which he thought would meet the case.
"You will all agree," said he, "that our chief danger consists in the sly and treacherous manner in which the enemy approaches us. Now, if we could receive some signal of her approach, we could easily escape from her. I venture, therefore, to propose that a small bell be procured, and attached by a ribbon round the neck of the Cat. By this means we should always know when she was about, and could easily retire while she was in the neighbourhood."
This proposal met with general applause, until an old mouse got up and said: "That is all very well, but who is to bell the Cat?" The mice looked at one another and nobody spoke.
Then the old mouse said, "It is easy to propose impossible remedies."
Not quite a nice story about a cat. To me, the moral of the story is that mice are stupid!
More fables by Aesop (eLook.org)
Football - round 16. My team lost, but they had a good run. Here are the stats (the margin was good considering that the Eagles are fairly much undefeated all season).
WEST COAST: 8.3, 10.7, 13.8, 17.9 (111) defeated
BRISBANE LIONS: 1.3, 4.8, 6.10, 13.10 (88)
GOALS – West Coast: Cousins 4, Chick 3, Lynch 3, Gardiner 2, Nicoski, Judd, Matera, Braun, McDougall Brisbane Lions: Bradshaw 4, Notting 3, Merrett 2, Corrie 2, Voss, McGrath
BEST – West Coast: Cousins, Judd, Fletcher, Wirrpunda, Lynch, Braun Brisbane Lions: Black, Power, Adcock, Johnson, Voss, Notting
INJURIES – West Coast: Jones (leg) Brisbane Lions: Charman (quad)
CHANGES – West Coast: Hansen (quad) replaced in selected side by Gardiner
REPORTS - Cox (West Coast) reported for striking by umpire Ryan in the third quarter, Charman (Brisbane Lions) reported for striking by umpire Woodcock in the third quarter
UMPIRES - McBurney, Ryan, Woodcock
CROWD - 41,524 at Subiaco Oval
*Please visit Cooper and Camilla who are part of the Catster CKC Triumvirate. Finding out things and sharing it with us. (My earlier Finding things out was a split infinitive).
........ooooooooOOOOOOOOoooooooo........
I slept on my other (day) bed for most of the day as the blinds were up and I could catch sun rays. My human disappeared for a few hours (something about his former boss visiting from Melbourne and going out for dim sum - or as it is better known in Australia, yum cha).
Anyway, he got back later and we also had a little nap together in the afternoon (also during a football game). And I better go now and let my human use the computer to finish off his job application. Meow!
keisercat@wildmail.com
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